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Welcome to Brighton Toy and Model Museum's Exhibits Wiki! This Wiki system is intended to act as a general-purpose public resource and repository for background information on the Museum's exhibits, and on the general and social history of toys and toymaking. Although it uses the same software that powers Wikipedia, editing is currently reserved for Museum staff and invitees only. For now, it currently only deals with a small part of the Museum's collection. Feel free to explore!

Entries so far Inside the Museum Display areas - displays and display areas listed by number Museum exhibits - the first ~1000 individual display items to be listed (September 2013) Special selections Frank Hornby 150th Anniversary - to commemorate the 150th anniversary of British toymaker icon Frank Hornby, we're radically expanding the sections of the wiki Knowledge Bank that deal with Hornby, Dinky Toys and Meccano, thanks to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. This work will be continuing over 2013, and so far has generated hundreds of pages on Hornby/Dinky/Meccano exhibits, and over a thousand online images. The grant is also paying for a full-time Project Officer for a year, and new public IT for the Museum, including a set of information touchscreen terminals. Hornby Series locomotives is a new category that's currently being worked on, as part of a site reorganisation. Some of the FH150-related categories are currently being shifted about, and might look a bit odd for the next few weeks. Director's Choice - Exhibits and displays selected by the Director, Chris Littledale, as having special significance. Events Frank Hornby Week - 11th May, and 14-19th May 2013. Past exhibitions Coronation Scot - our 2012 exhibition on Britain's streamlined, speed-striped Art Deco bullet-train. This was Britain's fastest train in 1937, and its luxuriously opulent red-and-gold 1939 version was (literally) the final word in high-speed luxury, representing the peak of Britain's Golden Age of Steam before WW2 ended high-speed luxury travel on the country's rail network. Recent Pages George the Fifth (locomotive) Meccano Evolution Outside the Museum Brighton - Pages about relevant Brighton-related subjects. updates, additions, users

Editing tools Layout guidelines We have an example wiki page for new editors with styling guidelines and links to further information. "Stub" pages : A "stub" page is a wikipage with very little information that needs expansion. All Pages (view): Most pages are for Museum exhibits, but there are also pages for some major manufacturers, for some of the original objects that have been modelled, and for other subjects that relate to the Museum and/or its exhibits. All Categories (view): At the bottom of each page is an optional list of categories that apply to the page. A page can have multiple category tags. The Wiki software automatically creates and updates page indexes for each individual category tag. Statistics, as of 20 February 2014 Number of Articles (including Category pages) 1,276 Number of "Museum Exhibit" Articles 1,115 Number of uploaded images and other files 1,992 Number of edits 15,163

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• The Museum's main website is at http://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/
• The Museum's Twitter account is at http://twitter.com/thetoymuseum/
• The Museum's wiki is here, at http://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/wiki/
• The Museum's news blog is at http://brightontoyandmodelmuseum.blogspot.com/
• The Museum's YouTube videos are at http://www.youtube.com/user/brightontoymuseum/